Inspired by a true event, Bebaak is the story of Fatin, a young woman from a lower middle–class Muslim family, who gets chastised by a blatantly misogynistic officer when she interviews for a scholarship from a religious Education Trust.

SHAZIA IQBAL has been working as a production designer and art director for over a decade in the Indian film and advertising industries. She studied film directing at MET Film School in London. Her debut short, Bebaak, just won the Audience Choice Award at the L.A. Indian Film Festival and Best Short Narrative at the NY Indian Film Festival.